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  1. FATHERS LEGACY (The):

    or Counsels to his children. In three Parts....

    London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.

    First and only edition, very scarce, of...

    £1850

  2. GIGLI, Mariano.

    Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco...

    Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici...

    First and only edition, rare, of a series...

    £1250

  3. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  4. [JUVENILE.]

    A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to...

    London, William Darton, 1822.

    First edition of this collection of moral...

    £350

  5. MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

    Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

    [Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

    Editio princeps of the forty-one...

    £1500

  6. [MONS.]

    Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

    Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

    First and only edition, very rare, of this...

    £975

  7. [ORDE, John Powlett.]

    A collection of 111 original compositions...

    Eton, 1818–1820.

    A delightful insight into classical education...

    £1750

  8. PARR, Samuel.

    A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

    [Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

    First and only edition of this treatise...

    £175

  9. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  10. [SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]

    Manuscript manual of exercises for use...

    [France, c. 1920].

    A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...

    £850

  11. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  12. SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

    A View of the elementary Principles of...

    Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

    First American edition (first Edinburgh,...

    £125

  13. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  14. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

    La pratique de l’education des princes,...

    Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

    £750

  15. [VENICE.]

    Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.

    A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...

    £350

  16. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to...

    £450

  17. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...

    [(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti,...

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...

    £375

  18. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

    London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  19. LUCAS, John.

    'Select and Original Pieces written at...

    Leeds, 1816 [–1817].

    A handsomely illustrated manuscript on...

    £1375

  20. MORE, Hannah.

    Strictures on the modern System of female...

    London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799.

    Third edition, published in the same year...

    £950